From: Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You know, people love to say that, but IME, hasn't been true. Hell, in my
current job, I've been extremely happy with the compensation I get for my
work, and would fight any attempt to unionize.
You aren't complaining because the unionization effort won those things for
you 90 years ago. The reason you have safe working conditions (and laws
which force employers to provide them), health care, a living wage (and laws
which force a minimum wage, and gives a baseline for your skills to be worth
more than), 8 hour workdays, sick days, vacation time, etc is because unions
and those who founded them fought and died in the late 1800s and early
1900s.
If unions were to disappear tomorrow, you'd keep them for a while. Then the
corporations would slowly remove them, each time removing a small enough
chunk that people don't immediately unionize. But so long as unions exist
they can't. Sometimes the threat of force is as potent as actually usign
it. Here, the threat that you can unionize and hurt the company forces them
to treat you decently.
Gabe
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